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Breeding African Clawed Frogs. (I AM SORRY THAT THIS PAGE SPREADS SO FAR ACROSS) On this page you will be able to learn how to breed these frogs and raise the tadpoles to small froglets. African Clawed frogs usually mate at night when everything is quiet. The male holds the female around the waist. They both float up to the surface while upside down, anywhere from 100 to 2,000 eggs can be layed. This acrobatic dance is seldom witnessed. In the process the eggs are fertilized externally (sperm meets egg outside of the body) the sticky eggs are attached to every available surface. The tadpoles that hatch from these eggs are transparent and are exclusively filter feeders, this mean that they do not feed like others frog tadpoles they filter the water through their gill and pick up microscopic pieces of algae and fresh water plankton. CLICK on the frog if you want to go to the ACF forum.
As I said earlier the eggs are layed singly and attatched to anything and everything in the tank, above you can see some albino ACF eggs.			Sexing of Adult Xenopus is relatively easy if you know what you are looking for. Males have nuptial pads on the inside of their arms these dark black stripes are used to 'grab' the female during amplexus (mating embrace). SEE PICTURE BELOW. Females have a little clocal extension which looks a bit like a little tail it is used to deposit the eggs. Females do NOT have nuptial pads on their arms.
Back Home My tadpoles have hatched out of their jelly and are stuck to the side, they look much healthier than last time and there are also alot more, they are now free swimming and eating whizzed spinach.. Link below is now fixed, sorry before I checked it I must of written it down wrong. Go Here To read about the curse of a thousand AC frogs. (also contains good recipe for feeding ACF tadpoles)			This page will follow the development of My albino Tads. (more coming soon) This is Zeus, a male albino African clawed frog. On this picture you can see clearly his Nuptial pads.

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